In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.


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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's...
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Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckle...
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-im...
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What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thin...
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Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
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It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the fu...
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The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
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The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find ...
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
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The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think...
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It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more ...
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Hope clouds observation.
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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...
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What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
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